Finance, Accounting & Administrative Careers
Primary Roles: Full-Function Bookkeeping, Financial Control & Operational Administration
The Backbone of Our Operations
Our back-office team is the backbone of our multi-branch network. We are looking for highly organized, detail-oriented financial and administrative professionals who thrive on structural order, absolute precision, and maintaining robust accounting workflows. Whether you specialize in full-function bookkeeping, balancing complex accounts, or managing high-volume administration, we offer a stable, professional environment where compliance and accuracy are recognized and rewarded.
Role Definition & Performance Expectations
Positions within our Finance & Administration team are HIGH-PRECISION COMPLIANCE roles that sit at the center of our daily branch operations. Please acknowledge your understanding of our operational requirements:
- Multi-Branch Synchronization: You will be responsible for standardizing, reviewing, and auditing financial data and transaction flows across our physical branch locations.
- Absolute Accuracy: Success means maintaining zero-variance reconciliations across complex inventory purchases, supplier statements, customer sales, inter account transactions, control accounts, and ledgers.
- Proactive Management: You are expected to stay completely ahead of financial deadlines, ensuring flawless internal controls and strict compliance with local industry regulations.
Why Join Sharp Auto Parts?
- Market-Related Compensation: Earn a competitive, experience-dependent basic salary aligned with motor industry standards.
- MIBCO Stability & Benefits: Secure your future with a MIBCO-compliant organization, including industry-regulated provident fund benefits.
- Advanced Digital Infrastructure: Work within an integrated cloud ecosystem using professional accounting software to streamline financial workflows, tracking, and reporting.
Core Responsibilities by Function
Daily functions may include aspects from all 3 sections below:
1. Bookkeeping & Accounting Functions
- Transaction Processing: Perform full-function bookkeeping, capturing and verifying daily financial entries received from all branches.
- Reconciliations & Journals: Process & review bank, cash, and credit card transactions, execute routine reconciliations, and balance control accounts perfectly.
- Stock & Supplier Verification: Match and reconcile major purchases for stock and services directly against supplier statements to protect inventory bottom lines.
- Taxation Compliance: Process and submit VAT returns accurately and on time.
- Treasury & Forex: Manage loading authorized payments, handling foreign currency transactions, revaluations, and cross-border supplier reconciliations.
- Audit Preparation: Maintain up-to-date asset tracking and depreciation records, and compile comprehensive audit files following financial year-ends.
2. Credit, Debtor & Creditor Control
- Ledger Management: Supervise accounts receivable and payable, ensuring all customer and supplier records are perfectly maintained.
- Collections & Aging: Proactively follow up on outstanding credit balances, manage debtor terms, and minimize financial risk.
- Account Adjustments: Allocate incoming payments accurately, handle account queries, and resolve pricing or credit discrepancies with commercial clients.
3. General Administration & Support
- Operational Admin: Execute core office administration tasks, including meticulous digital and physical filing, documentation binding, and data management.
- Management Support: Perform ad-hoc financial reporting, coordinate accounting control procedures, and assist with general branch administration as required by management.
Minimum Requirements
Strictly enforced for all Finance & Administrative applicants:
- Education: A relevant Diploma or Degree in Bookkeeping, Accounting, Finance, or a closely related commercial discipline.
- Experience: A minimum of 3 years of proven, professional experience in your specialized financial or administrative field.
- Documentation: A comprehensive CV featuring verifiable, traceable professional references alongside your qualification certificates.
- Compliance: Successful candidates must provide a Police Clearance Certificate and consent to thorough background checks (Criminal, Credit, and Qualifications).
Highly Advantageous Attributes:
- Completed or written articles / previous experience working within an accountancy practice.
- Direct knowledge or hands-on working experience with the Zoho ecosystem (specifically Zoho Books).
Bookkeeper Application Durban Only - Open
This application form is for professionals with a minimum of 3 years of experience handling full-cycle bookkeeping, VAT submissions, and financial statements. Successful candidates must provide a Police Clearance Certificate and consent to background checks (Criminal, Credit, and Qualifications).
Accountant Application Durban Only - Closed
This application form is for professionals with a minimum of 3 years of experience handling full-cycle bookkeeping, VAT submissions, and financial statements. Successful candidates must provide a Police Clearance Certificate and consent to background checks (Criminal, Credit, and Qualifications).
Credit, Debtor & Creditor Controller Application Durban Only - Closed
This application form is for specialists focused on ledger reconciliation, supplier statements, credit tracking, and debtor management. Successful candidates must provide a Police Clearance Certificate and consent to background checks (Criminal, Credit, and Qualifications).
General Administration & Support Application Durban Only - Closed
This application form is for office administrators, clerical assistants, and data capture specialists looking to support our back-office operations. Successful candidates must provide a Police Clearance Certificate and consent to background checks (Criminal, Credit, and Qualifications).
